Democratic Outrage Porn Reveals Deep Denial

DEMOCRATIC DENIAL continued on Wednesday with the reelection of Rep. Nancy Pelosi as minority leader.

Clinton and Sanders supporters are in a war over the 2016 party spoils that neither have earned, as Senator Elizabeth Warren rails about Trump picks that he’s entitled to make, diluting her power and relegating her to peanut gallery screamer. Other Democrats are braying about a “minority presidency,” which only applies if you ignore over half of the country.

Senator Bernie Sanders will make a lot of people happy with his op-ed but the inability to realize what Trump did with his highly symbolic Carrier deal before he is inaugurated is a big part of the Democrats’ problem.

President-elect Donald Trump will reportedly announce a deal with United Technologies, the corporation that owns Carrier, that keeps less than 1,000 of the 2100 jobs in America that were previously scheduled to be transferred to Mexico. Let’s be clear: It is not good enough to save some of these jobs. Trump made a promise that he would save all of these jobs, and we cannot rest until an ironclad contract is signed to ensure that all of these workers are able to continue working in Indiana without having their pay or benefits slashed.

Sanders is right, however, the Carrier deal and especially the fanfare of the announcement that is to come is pure transactional Trump that speaks directly to the voters who elected him, which is a savvy political move.

Secretary Clinton made important history that will never be forgotten. She also lost one nomination fight and another general election fight 8 years later. Remember when HRC’s 2008 campaign had no plan for caucus states? It cost her the nomination. In 2016, Team Clinton had a demographic plan but they had absolutely no electoral strategy. Who does this knowing that the only thing that matters is winning the Electoral College? Even before you get to Clinton’s overwhelming candidate challenges, Democratic voters still in shock have to grapple with the fact that Hillary Clinton lost an election that she should have won.

It wasn’t Director Comey’s fault.

It wasn’t the Russians fault.

It was having no campaign message from the moment Secretary Clinton began her campaign. She knew what she wanted to do but not why she was doing it. Finally landing on “stronger together,” she and her team had no clue that Americans didn’t feel the “togetherness” she was talking about. “Love trumps hate” was pithy but it paled in comparison to “Make America Great Again.”

Hillary Clinton resisted and resisted pleas to make peace with the media in an election cycle where Donald Trump was playing the press like a Stradavarias. Her online army berated every critique of Clinton including what was deserved. HRC’s level of resistance to the media, and that of her online force, looks karmic in hindsight. Trump’s truthiness came with a brash does of “I don’t care what you think,” while Hillary Clinton was always making the case how bad Trump was. Team Clinton was awash in the belief that Mrs. Clinton’s goodness would prevail while lugging around an approval and “honest and trustworthy” rating on death watch.

And today, there remains no Democratic message and most the congressional “leaders” are over 69 years of age.

We can take comfort in the fact that every two years America’s political pendulum corrects itself in some way.

That was before President-elect Trump and the permanent campaign season we are entering, which will be illustrated in Indiana when he announces his symbolic Carrier deal.

Democrats have several challenges and the most urgent isn’t President-elect Trump.

The denial and caterwauling is terrifying to watch if you’re a liberal. It reveals the level of sheer, unadulterated panic over the situation Democrats find themselves in today that should be blamed on Democratic leadership over which far too many progressive activists are providing cover.

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I will never understand why she kept avoiding the press. Trump’s face was out there all the time. Someone sure as hell was not telling her that she needed to be out there more and needed to talk to the press. The thing that really kept bothering me was her lack of an economy policy. If she had one she never told us what it was. Trump did talk about bringing back jobs, etc. Whether he could do all the things he promised it didn’t matter, it gave people hope which she DID NOT do. And now the Dems are… Read more »

Please explain to me what Hillary could have done to improve relations with the media? I agree that she avoided them was a mistake but if she had been available everyday it still would have been…emails?…foundation? speeches? why are you so unpopular? Don’t see any winning strategy there. I don’t think Comey was the only reason but I think it would be possible to document what it did to her standing with undecideds. I don’t see how you can say Wikileaks did not hurt. It reinforced the poisoning of the millennials that started with Bernie. The things they think about… Read more »

My heart is with you, Lake Lady. Activists I’m privileged to know via online discussions (& emails) or know of their work are bearing down harder as if to will their work from disappearing before their eyes. It’s a crushing defeat in every respect. There was only one way for HRC to deal with the media and we learned she wasn’t willing to do it. That’s a choice she made. She just didn’t think it was worth healing her RELATIONSHIPS with the media and actually didn’t even consider her interaction with reporters “a relationship.” What you resist persists, it’s said.… Read more »

Betsy, did you see the hilarious ad for town council done by the guy’s wife? She said, ” Please elect my husband, he doesn’t have any hobbies other than serving on the council ” , it was so good. I believe I heard he won, I don’t remember the town or state.

I quietly pray that the recount might just be what we’ve been hoping for. In the far right blogosphere, they are saying that the Clinton campaign and Soros are the ones paying for the recounts. I personally don’t care who pays for it. Did you see Trump at Carrier? What a bs artist he is. He didn’t do that but he sure took credit for it. Carrier got a few million dollars to stay there but right down the street Carrier is moving 700 jobs to Mexico. I really chuckle to myself because I’m waiting to see the companies that… Read more »

Donald Trump “got” the working class. The Democrats forgot how to – or got so “cool” they didn’t think they had to anymore. That’s where I see the problem. We don’t have the numbers to win the swing states without the working class feeling like we have their back. They didn’t feel like we did anymore.